Re: Can I discover OAs/enclosures without discovering the network devices in it?

That is the whole issue it scans the objects and when it sees that it's à switch the switch is not added. So every time the enclosure is identified the switches get scanned. You could try to disable SSH as à protocol if you don't use SSH for any credentials you have filled in. From a pure monitoring view you don't need SSH. The other opltion you can try is to discover the switches and then set them to susspend from monitoring for ever. Not sure if that stops the scans.....

Re: Can I discover OAs/enclosures without discovering the network devices in it?

I hate to say it, but the OA discovery uses XML reply to identify the devices inside the Enclosure so identification should work just fine without SSH. Can you mail the logfile for the OA identify when SSH is disabled ?

Re: Can I discover OAs/enclosures without discovering the network devices in it?

Hello again,

You do need credentials to discover ESX. ESX 4.x uses SNMP ESX 5.x uses WBEM. SNMP needs a community string like public and to be allowed to connect to the SNMP deamon running on the ESX server. ESX 5.x needs root or a user with root rights on the server. I would recommend to create a SIM discovery user with root rights on the server. No extra credentials are needed on OA's or ILO's for discovery. The ILO responds on http and snmp by default.

The OA and ILO use a xml page build in in the web interface, no extra credentials are needed for discovery. However if you want to receive events you need to setup the SNMP trap settings on the OA and ILO's.